Period 1

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Year of Columbus’ arrival on October 12.

Question 2

1607

Answer 2

First permanent English settlement at Jamestown.

Question 3

Motives for exploration

Answer 3

Spread Christianity, water routes, fur trading, mines, and plantations.

Question 4

Aztecs

Answer 4

Major civilization of North America in Mexico.

Question 5

Mayans

Answer 5

Mayor civilization of Central America in the Yucatan peninsula.

Question 6

Incas

Answer 6

Major civilization of South America in the Andes mountains (Peru and Bolivia).

Question 7

Maize & potatos

Answer 7

Crops in South America.

Question 8

Pueblo

Answer 8

Civilization near Utah and Colorado.

Question 9

Sedentary

Answer 9

Type of population that settled and didn’t move around as much. Ex. Chumash.

Question 10

Nomadic

Answer 10

Hunter-Gather type populations that moved often. Ex. Ute.

Question 11

Mississippi River Valley

Answer 11

Fertile land with many populations due to rich food supply Ex. Hopewell.

Question 12

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 12

Portuguese, established trading post empire after sailing around Africa.

Question 13

Isabella & Ferdinand

Answer 13

United Castille and Aragon empires to create Spain under the Catholic Christian banner.

Question 14

Christopher Columbus

Answer 14

Italian, asked Spain Monarchs for Sponsorship to find a new water route to India. Landed in the Caribbean Island of San Salvador on Oct. 12, 1492.

Question 15

Line of Demarcation

Answer 15

Drawn by the Pope to separate Spain and Portugal in South America.

Question 16

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 16

Moved popes line west slightly giving Brazil to Portugal.

Question 17

Columbian Exchange

Answer 17

The transfer of food animals, minerals, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Question 18

Smallpox

Answer 18

Brought by the Spanish to the Americans, weakened most of the native peoples making it easier to get overpowered by colonial armies.

Question 19

Americas to Europe

Answer 19

Maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cacao, tobacco.

Question 20

Europe/Africa to Americas

Answer 20

Rice, wheat, soybeans, rye, oats, lemons, oranges & horses, pigs, cattle, chicken.

Question 21

Feudalism

Answer 21

System in which peasants lived and worked on the land of a noble (land granted by monarchs) in exchange for armed protection. Power resided at the hands of landowners.

Question 22

Capitalism

Answer 22

System based on private ownership in the free and open exchange of goods between property owners. Power resided at the hands of rich merchants.

Question 23

Middle Passage

Answer 23

Dangerous route from Africa to the Americas for enslaved people.

Question 24

Joint-stock companies

Answer 24

A limited liability organization in which a plurality of investors pool their money to fund a venture.

Question 25

Encomienda System

Answer 25

Spanish King granted land with natives to farm.

Question 26

Caste System

Answer 26

Higher taxes for the people at the bottom of the list

Question 27

Asiento system

Answer 27

Spaniards had to pay the king taxes for each African Slave they brought.

Question 28

Bartolome de Las Casas

Answer 28

Priest and main voice against slavery of native people.

Question 29

Valloid debate

Answer 29

The debate regarding the morality of native slavery 1550-1551.

Question 30

Juan Gines de Sepulveda

Answer 30

Priest that argued Natives were not human and benefited from systems like encomienda.

Question 31

Noah’s son Ham

Answer 31

Cursed by his father to be a slave forever. Europeans concluded that dark skin was a mark of Ham and, therefore were bound to slavery.